The Biggest Demographic Shift Of The Past Decade

The biggest demographic shift underway in America is a reverse of
the "Great Migration" of the 20th century when African Americans
fled poverty, discrimination, and violence in the rural south to
inner cities in the Midwest, Northeast, and West Coast.

Today, the Great Migration is reversing. Blacks are moving
to the south and into the suburbs in record numbers.

As
new research from the Milken Institute shows, today, most
major cities, especially Northern cities, are seeing their black
populations dwindle. (See chart below.) More than half of all
black people living in metropolitan areas are in the suburbs.The
report gives a few reasons for this:

Suburbs in Southern metropolitan areas are the easiest places
to find a job today and they are particularly open to

Increase of Hispanic population in cities

White gentrification in urban neighborhoods

This makes the wonderfully gerrymandered political landscape a
bit more complicated than politicians would like it to be.
Suburbia is no longer a white Republican enclave.

The report says, "How this will play out is unclear. But there’s
no doubt that the old generalizations about cities versus the
suburbs are losing validity. While the undertow of white
resentment of racial minorities that powered the 2010 election is
still being felt, politicians who pander to the past may soon be
marginalized by the reality of black and Hispanic feet on the
ground."